For what you need it for 8 gigs is a bit over kill 4 should be more than enough. Try the Toshiba A660-18N model but make sure you get the 4 hour battery with it. Use this site for searching might help

Yeah, you are probably right. I am sort of spoiled with ram on my current units. I probably do not need more than 4gigs.

Thanks for the suggestion. i will check them out.

other post updated with a link

Thanks, I am in the USA though and I cannot find that model so easily. I may find it on Ebay though or something.

Here are a few I have my eyes on

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-IdeaPad...productDetails

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-P2020M-NX...pr_product_top

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPa..._cd_al_qh_dp_t

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Honestly I would like to wait until i can afford more but my current laptop is almost dead and my pc's do not work when the power goes out and it is the season here for t storms, hurricanes etc.

When the power goes out I can run my phone and laptop for many hours using my powered back up battery and I use my phone for internet as a hot spot so that way I can still work, etc.

What exactly are you looking for in a laptop?
What are your specific requirements?

For what you need it for any of them would do, but ask yourself this at anytime would you ever need it for anything else if yes then think again before you buy. The one I said in the above post would do all and play most games as well its the one I use and I find it does everything I need if I want to play big end games then I go use my water cooled one

Love.... :D

Reliability, speed, and cost effectiveness basically.

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I have my pc's, Xboxs, Ps's so I probably would not need it for that. I guess the main factors would be reliability and speed.

I will search for that model again. I have never owned a Toshiba before.

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Requirements are mostly posted in the op.

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That Toshiba must be for Europe only..I don't see it here anywhere. I am trying to figure out what it's USA brother model is.

Seriously, what are you going to be doing on this laptop, whenever you use it?

Work? What sort of work? Photo Editing? Video Editing? Programing? Do you need stuff like IDE's or visual studio?
Do you need to run emulators/VM's ?

Thanks Zachary,

A little video editing, a little photo editing but mostly basic coding stuff.. Nothing really too processor intensive but the photo and video work and that is not a daily thing. I think the ram would be a bigger issue for me with many things going on at once, many browser windows, etc.

Vm's,emulators rarely but possible.

If you're doing photo or video editing, and want it to happen at any speed, you want a good processor. i3 or i5, if you're going to be doing a lot of it, i7.

You shouldn't get a machine with less than 6gb of ram.

I'd also highly recommend looking at a SSD, however, that will also increase costs.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellsto...en&s=bsd&cs=04


though, I'd opt for Win8 at this point, but I am a big fan of their Kool-Aid.


I don't think you're going to get away with what you want until you bump your budget a bit.